We are pleased that the Independent Review of Gender Identity Services for Children and Young People has finally been released. This comprehensive review by Dr Hilary Cass has exposed the harms that have been done to children by allowing an ideology to override safeguarding. Children have been given experimental drugs to halt puberty with no evidence that these were appropriate to treat their distress and no attempt to verify that they were effective. There was no evidence base at the start of this scandal and there is still none now. Even worse, adult departments within the NHS who would be able to provide some insight into the longer term effects of these drugs have refused to cooperate with the review.
This review is welcome, but it must be the beginning of accountability, not the end.
As we have been saying for a long time, this is the biggest medical, safeguarding and lobbying scandal of our time. The refusal of adult services within the NHS to engage with this review is astounding, and points to corruption.
It is now very clear that a wide-reaching public inquiry is needed.
We are particularly concerned by the way that schools, aided and abetted by the teaching unions, have promoted an ideology that bypassed all safeguarding practices. The harm and suffering to children exposed by the Cass review is heartbreaking. Whilst we think that the voice of the child is important, we are disappointed by the seeming lack of professional curiosity around whose voice was really being heard when children adopted a transgender identity: was it the voice of the child or of the activist who radicalised them either online or in school?
We thank Dr Cass for her work in this area, she clearly had no comprehension of the scale of this task when she courageously agreed to take it on in 2019. However, overall the response to this crisis has been too little, too late. This is a scandal that should never have occurred in the first place. It has required large numbers of professionals to ignore their duty of care and disregard fundamental principles such as ‘First Do No Harm’. It is systematic failure in a wide range of disciplines.
We will be encouraging people to ask candidates about their commitment to child safeguarding in the upcoming election. If the Government and opposition is serious about halting harm to children, there will now be a Public Inquiry.
Well spoken! I particularly like: ‘The refusal of adult services within the NHS to engage with this review is astounding, and points to corruption’.
There are just so many evil people involved in this hideous scandal, from the political billionaires funding the vile movement and the vicious, unconscionable child-abusing activists led by Stonewall, all down the line through the criminals in the NHS and the clinics with their corrupt medics, all of whom, terrified as they finally recognise the harm they have done to our children, are now unlawfully refusing to co-operate with the inquiry. A special place in hell is waiting for them all.